Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff

Re:Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff by wpietri on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:04PM (#23014844)

Yeah, I have to wonder how much of that is Promotion-Driven Development. A few contributions to an existing package is way less impressive than writing a whole new thing from scratch. In case others are curious, here's the list:

https://github.com/uber

I'm sure some of those were necessary. But I have a hard time believing all of them were.

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Re:Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff by hildaman on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:14PM (#23014905)

I once saw some article about them writing their own rich chat client for their internal tooling because their existing solution wouldn't "uber scale" - whatever that meant.

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Re:Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff by wpietri on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:20PM (#23014948)

That reminds me of the delightful "MongoDB is web scale" spoof video from years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Clearly Uber scale is one level up!

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